... discussions with officials at the Department of Health responsible for the intervention. Findings If different epistemic cultures are brought together, “problems of proximity” emerge that highlight epistemic divides between the policymakers, operations managers (knowledge “advisors”) and clinician-manager...

... (Shafer et al., 2001), and operations management (OM) (Jiang et al., 2009) literatures have addressed the issue of organizational knowledge loss from different perspectives reflecting advances in their respective fields and drawing on existing and popular concepts in the literature...

... in a dyadic transfer situation, and short cases illustrate aspects of the model. Suggestions are made on how the dyadic model may be developed to apply to interactions in networks of more than two actors. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Knowledge management Information networks Operations management...